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Hi Guys, so tonight's performance of Revolt has reached maximum viewer capacity and is "Sold Out". We are encouraging folks to seek out any of the other dates and times. Hopefully, this announcement can direct guests to the other performances...viewing space is going fast. So please look into any of the other performances!

Revolt. She Said. Revolt Again. Program (3/3) Introducing the Cast and Directors of Act 1! Act 1 is directed by Mandy Roveda, and assisted directed by Leanne Connor and Selena Otello. This Act features 8 incredibly talented students from the 3rd year Acting Conservatory. Happy Opening! Tickets are available on the website or through the link down below! ... Links : Tickets : https://secure1.tixhub.com/yorku/online/index.asp Revolt Fundraiser : https://www.canadahelps.org//york-university-y3-studio-s/

Revolt. She Said. Revolt Again. Program (2/3) This Theatre@York online presentation of Revolt. She Said. Revolt Again. by Alice Birch, challenges the ideas of sex, self-worth, work, responsibility, and much more, in relation to the female experience by deconstructing language, symbols and institutions of everyday life. Thanks to the hard work of MFA directors Mandy Roveda and Alison Wong, Performance Facilities, Work Study students, assistant directors, and the significant ta...lents of the third-year conservatory actors, Birch’s irreverent text is truly transformed from the page to the screen in this breathtaking adaptation. The play is set to stream January 21-24, 2021 at 7:00pm! Link to the Y3 Studio Show Fundraiser is down below! Links : Tickets : https://secure1.tixhub.com/yorku/online/index.asp Revolt Fundraiser : https://www.canadahelps.org//york-university-y3-studio-s/

Revolt. She Said. Revolt Again. Program (1/3) Introducing the Cast and Directors of Acts 2-4! Acts 2-4 is directed by Alison Wong, and assisted directed by Felix Hao and Karolina Solovka. These Acts feature 8 incredibly talented students from the 3rd Year Acting Conservatory. Happy Opening! Tickets are still available on the website or through the link down below! ... Links : Tickets : https://secure1.tixhub.com/yorku/online/index.asp Revolt Fundraiser : https://www.canadahelps.org//york-university-y3-studio-s/

Happy Hump Day Folks! . It's the middle of the week and you got this! .... Post Design: @wasifanoshin See more

Some exciting new things are happening next week, during reading week! Threadbare is going live in less than a week! Created by theatre alumnae Alexandra Caprara and Raechel Kula. Photography by theatre alumna Amanda Caliolo.... ThreadBare is an interactive textile installation that centres the voices and experiences of survivors of sexual and domestic violence. This piece is being featured in the Rendezvous with Madness Festival 2020, presented by WorkMan arts, and is comprised of submissions of poetry and prose of up to 150 characters to be featured in the piece. Check out their website, threadbareproject.com for more information. Workman Arts Rendezvous With Madness 2020 And check out the link in our below about purchasing tickets to the virtual installation show that's taking place next week! Link: https://workmanarts.com/rwm-events/threadbare/ Photography by: @pandaabear137

Did you guys catch last night's Surprise! Surprise! event that the Department of Theatre held in collaboration with Why Not Theatre????? Safe to say it was hit as Ravi Jain, Miriam Fernandes and Camellia Koo explained and described their show: "Mahabharata" Why Not Theatre ... @seeravirun @camelliakoodesign See more

Check out this really cool opportunity from Wildseed centre for Art & Activism. "We are excited to be launching the 20-month paid Wildseed Black Arts Fellowship in November 2020, and we would be grateful if you can share our call for submissions with your networks. Wildseed Centre for Art & Activism was formed by Black Lives Matter Canada to build an enduring space that could cultivate the most radical ideas from diverse Black communities. If you know emerging or mid-caree...r Black artists based in Tkaronto who may be interested, please encourage them to apply.The application details and a little more about the fellowship can be found on their Facebook and Instagram." Wildseed Centre For Art and Activism The deadline is October 9th. If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to ask.

From the desk of Professor Marlis Schweitzer, Chair, Department of Theatre... Dear Theatre students, This year we’re doing something a little different with Surprise! Surprise! Where in previous years we’ve sent you out to see theatre in Toronto, this year we’re bringing Toronto theatre to you!... Our first event, on October 6 from 7-9 PM via Zoom, will feature 3 theatre artists from Why Not Theatre: Artistic Director Ravi Jain, Associate Artistic Director Miriam Fernandes (a York BFA Acting alum), and designer/scenographer Camellia Koo. These amazing artists will be speaking about the design and development of their production of Mahabharata! Why Not Theatre Please mark this in your calendars! We’ve created an Eventbrite page for the upcoming Why Not Theatre visit on October 6 from 7-9. Please claim your FREE ticket through the link down below: Link : https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/why-not-theatre-tickets-1224595 Please note: This event will NOT be recorded so this is an exclusive opportunity to hear from some of the country’s most exciting theatre artists.

We are thrilled to announce the IBPOC Theatre Alumni Hub, an exciting initiative that has been sponsored by the Department of Theatre and led by recent York grads, Davinder Malhi and Sanskruti Marathe. The first workshop is this Friday y'all!!!!! This program offers a series of free workshops for IBPOC Alumni and current students led by influential IBPOC artists in the theatre industry. ... The first three workshops will feature: -Weyni Mengesha (Oct 2nd) THIS FRIDAY!!! -Jani Lauzon (Oct 23rd) -Anand Rajaram (Nov 28th) If you are interested in becoming a member of this collective please sign up using the link down below : https://docs.google.com//1FAIpQLSen2AM4hnq1V_J5sB/viewform @davinder.pdf @sanskrutis_adaa @weynimengesha @janilauzon @hrh_anand_rajaram Soulpepper Theatre Company

Our PhD student Rajat Nayyar and Emergent Futures Co-Lab will continue their online talk series - Talking Uncertainty #02 - with 'The Murmuration of Birds: An Anishinaabe Ontology of Mnidoo-Worlding' on September 30, 2020. Our upcoming discussion will feature Emergent Futures CoLab advisor Dr. Dolleen Tisawii'ashii Manning, a Queen's National Scholar in Anishinaabe Language, Knowledge and Culture (ALKC) at Queen's University. Dr. Dolleen Manning discusses what can we learn ...from wading into subtle mnidoo regions to collaboratively imagine new futures and formations. Click on the link down below to read more about the Wednesday event! Link: https://www.urgentemergent.org/ Emergent's partners: York Centre for Asian Research (YCAR), Centre for Imaginative Ethnography, Peripheral Visions Lab, York University - Sensorium: Centre for Digital Arts & Technology, Future Anthropologies Network of European Association of Social Anthropologists and York U AMPD.

Congratulations to Owais Lightwala (BFA Theatre Production & Design 2012) for starting a new position at the Ryerson School of Performance! Owais Lightwala is an arts leader and a creative producer. He is currently an Assistant Professor in the School of Performance, Faculty of Communication and Design at Ryerson University, where his teaching and research focused on creative producing and arts management. Prior to that, he spent 8 years as the Managing Director ...for Why Not Theatre, where he produced sold-out runs of award-winning new works, national and international tours, presentations from around the world, and co-helmed the creation of innovative new producing models like the RISER Project. He advises many arts organizations (including theatre and dance companies, music presenters, film festivals and more) as a strategic consultant, particularly on finding better ways of doing things, changing who’s on stage and in the audience, and anything to do with numbers. He also dabbles in theatre making as an artist, and is a prolific web and graphic designer. A lifelong learner, he was selected for the Impact Program for Arts Leaders (Stanford Graduate School of Business), has completed the CORe program (Harvard Business School), was a 2018 DiverseCity Fellow (CivicAction), a fellow in the 2018 Leaders Lab (Toronto Arts Council/Banff Centre), is a graduate of York University’s Theatre program, and currently pursuing his MBA at Ryerson University. Congratulations Owais!!!! Post Design by: @wasifanoshin

Major congratulations are in order to one of our postdoctoral fellows, Devon Healey. Devon has been selected as one of Outside the March’s (Dora award-winning Toronto Theatre Company) TD Forward March commissioned artist and playwright for their 2020/21 season! She has been commissioned to write and perform in, "Rainbow on Mars", a sensory reclamation of blindness encountered through the story of Plato’s cave. ... Click on the link down below to read more about the big announcement. Link: http://outsidethemarch.ca/the-experiences/2020-commissions/ The link also contains a short video introducing the other three artists who’s work engages indigenous storytelling, conversations with the work of Langeston Hughes and a dance-rave opera!

Theatre graduate Chi-Chi Onuah, recently returned to "The Show Must Go Online" in a virtual production of Othello where she will be played Bianca! It was comprised of a global cast and it streamed LIVE on Wednesday September 9th at 2pm EST for William Shakespeare's Othello. Click on the link down below to watch the LIVE stream on YouTube!... Link: youtu.be/nqJlHeazfYg

Introducing our... **drumroll please** Year 4 Acting Conservatory Class of 2020 Poster Design: @russellblower

Calling all female-identifying and non-binary actors and creators! Mind Yo’ Business Productions is currently holding virtual auditions for their intermedial, physical theatre piece called: Five. Five is an exciting devised piece that explores the parallels between reality and the virtual world. Four young women are trapped inside a video game where their race, gender bodies and minds are used against them. Will they escape?... If you enjoy performing, devising, and video games, please consider sending in a self-tape to: [email protected] no later than Saturday Sept. 19th at 12PM EST. (See full self-tape requirements ) To learn more about Mind Yo’ Business Productions, and to get regular updates about Five follow them on instagram and their Facebook: Mind Yo' Business Productions

Major congratulations goes out to our Theatre @York community members at Emergent Futures CoLab for recently taking their conversations and turning it into a Podcast! Here's what they had to say: Our inaugural Talking Uncertainty #01 session with Dr. Magdalena Kazubowski-Houston and Rajat Nayyar is now available as a #podcast! Many thanks to our talented EFC member Debashis Sinha for designing our podcast music; Rana El Kadi for that amazing intro; Daniel Akira Stadnicki an...d Alize Arcan for their contributions to the talk insights! You can listen to the full talk or access the six insights we collected from the discussion here: https://www.urgentemergent.org/talking-u/kazubowski-houston Subscribe and listen to our podcast series on: -Apple - https://apple.co/2ZnyXnK -Spotify - https://spoti.fi/3k0g6ai -Overcast - https://bit.ly/33kgwSm We have linked their website with the talk down below: https://www.urgentemergent.org/talking-u/kazubowski-houston Emergent Futures CoLab @rajatnayyar Debashis Sinha Music Post Design by: @wasifanoshin